Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-09
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scheme in contemplation.
Robert Downing continues to play Spar
tacus at the Star, New York.
Miss Annie Robe is the f~avorite with the
photograph buyerin New York.
Jeffreys Lewis increased the population
of San Francisco last week, and it's a boy.
The Jesey Lily will not play one night
stands, which shows good sense on her
part.
Miss Fortescue's surname is Finney,
and her father is coal merchant in Eng
land.
Robert Downing played to over 81, SOC
Christmas Day at the Star Theater in New
York.
1t is grayely stated that ga ParlOr
| Match will be done next season as a
comic opera.
Tom Grant, the one-legged song and
dance man, was married to q n~ou-protes-
sional recently.
w. j. Seaman d a standing
offer of $1,000 for a play as good as
"Shane-ne-LawnI"
Miss Annie Robe, leading lady of Wax
lacks, is soon 10 wed q prominent Wall
street broker.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Florence are enjoy
ing the most prosperous season they have
had for several years.
1t is rumored that a real, genuine Amer
lean will shortly be engaged by the AMER
lean Opera Company.
Robert ManteI's dress suit fits him so
we'll that one would think his garments
were pasted on.
Nothing has been said about Ellen Ter
ry's throat for two or three days, and it is
presumed it is better.
Mile. Rhea will play in New York some
time in April. She will sall May l, never
to return professionally.
Manager J. NJ Hill, of the Union Square
Theatre, New York, has taken another
five years lease Ofthat house.
The title of the new comic opera by the
authors Of ''Erminie," to be produced in
February, is "Mynheer Jan"
A little dramatic sketch taken from one
of Mrs. Frances HOdgsOn Burnett's stories,
will be played in connection with "A Great
Pink Pearl"
Joseph Jefferson started for his LOuisl-
ana plantation on January LIST. lie be-
gins his regular spring season April 4th, in
Fall River, Mass.
The Dramatic Nelrs says Edmund X.
Collier, in tragedy, has become notably
popular and is destined to Z high place lr
the niche Of fame.
Lawrence Barrett played CaSsius, Mac
beth, etc, when only II. His production
OF "Rienzi" has been reduced to five acts
and otherwise improved.
Henry Irying's faaOrite color is crimson,
and for this season, in the cOstuming of
MephistO in Faust, " he indulgesin q good
deal offery-tipted raiment.
Lucy HoOper's daughter, who has been
preparing foI the stage at Paris, will play
3 leading part in COquelin's company when
he comes to this country.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, Of amateur
fame, is socially established in Paris forthe
winter, the center of an admiring circle.
He uncle Is American Minister.
It'll alleged that Miss Fortescue is very
imperiOus at her rehearsals, and often cor
reefs by saying, 'Oh! bah! you mustn't do
that-that is 50 American"
W. F. Bland, who is playing the dude
in Tangled Lives" at the New York
Fifth Avenue Theater, is q cousin of Lady
Loliu Campbell. His real name is Blood.
A strange freak of this season, remarks
~ Eastern contemporary, is the appearance
OF that imposing tragedian, Frederick
Warde, rs q brawny and heroic gladiator.
The last honor heaped upon Adonis
Dixey in Boston was that of being in
stalled as a knight of the Red Cross and
Temple and Malta, by the Knights Tenn
plar.
Arrangements for the Dixey special
train to San Francisco next May have
been consummased, and the trip will be
made from New York to the Pacific Slope
in eighty hours.
Miss Helen Hastings, o young English
actress of considerable talent, 1T Is said,
and no scandal. will begin an engagement
at the Union Square Theater, New York,
January II.
The manuscript of the late Salmi Morse
| will be sold at auction in a few weeks.
They include the much-talked-of Passion
Play and q lot of other trash. His real
name was Solomon Moses.
When the special performance in aid Of
the Actors Fund is given ut the Casino,
| New York, on Thursday afternoon, jan
uary 20, II floral booths in the foyers are
to be presided over by Il popular actresses,
II is gossiped that the yanderbilts pro-
pose to amuSe themselves by building .
theatre on Fifth Avenue, where they will
maintain a stock company for the enter
tainment exclusively of their own circle.
Sara Bernhardt arrived in Panama last
week. She will reach New Orleans u fort
night earlier than was anticipated, and her
| tour of the United States will consequent
" he tw weeks longer than was intended.
Harry Lorenzo, Of the Lorenzo Bros,
has q badly lacerated throat received from
the dog that struggles with him IN ms
play. He forgot toput on his throat pad,
and came near paying for his forgettulness
with his life.
Geo. T. Chaplain will sever his connec-
| ton as manager of Thatcher, Primrose and
Vests Minstrels January 18th. He has
been With them since their organization,
! August 3 lSS2, and leaves under the kind
est of circumstances.
UnwiSe friends are doing what they can
| to cheaper the talents Of Kyrie Bellew,
| Herbert Kelley and Robert B. Mantell by
circulating the statement that their photo
graphs are in great demand by alleged
ladies OF society"
BARNESYILLE, OHIO.
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